How to Use Grand Guignol in a Sentence

Grand Guignol

noun

• The play seems to want to flirt with the idea of Grand Guignol, even if remains more firmly rooted in the land of Samuel Beckett.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
• For a Grand Guignol flourish, nothing beats the late-night fleshhacking in Satriale's.
  — Dan Snierson, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025
• But if some of the address was a game show, much of it was a bloody Grand Guignol theater of horror stories, almost all about immigrants preying on the helpless and the innocent.
  — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026
• In these moments, the actor bursts through his roles as the Spider does through Reilly, unleashing the Grand Guignol excess that is Nicolas Cage.
  — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
• The Grand Guignol gets a Bollywood makeover in Virat Pal’s satirical bloodfest about hapless paparazzi stumbling upon the dark secret behind a beloved Mumbai movie star’s beauty and tireless commitment to her craft.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
• The scenic design by Paul Tate dePOO III savors the show’s Grand Guignol flavors while leaving plenty of flexibility for antic comedy.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• The stakes just keep getting higher in this Grand Guignol of bloodthirsty excess, as bereaved government agent Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) descends into shocking depravity in his pursuit of serial killer Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik).
  — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
• Perhaps the actor-director is trying to borrow a page from his bitterly funny David Fincher hit, Gone Girl (another kidnapping thriller, sort of), but Animals has none of that earlier picture’s wit or Grand Guignol extremes or gonzo structure.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026